Shane's kernels

[Tony Baechler]

Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:36:31PM -0700, Foreign White Devil wrote:
>
>   
>> Until Debian officially supports us, I can't recommend it to anyone
>>     
>
> Well, forget etch, but look at lenny which should be released soon, what
> is missing?
> - orca
> - brltty
> - speakup modules
> All in aptitude ready to go.
>
> Well, the obvious thing that's missing is an already compiled kernel image which includes Speakup.  Unless I'm mistaken, the Speakup modules package is just source.  You still have to compile the modules yourself.  If they were already compiled so that installing them would set up speech for you, that would be great.  Even after you compile the modules, you still have to adjust your boot configuration to start Speakup with what synth you want.  If debconf could prompt for this and set it up for you, as is done when new kernel images are installed, that would be more automatic, less prone to errors and better overall.  One thing Daniel didn't mention is that the Lenny installer should have accessible images with Braille and Speakup support, which Etch will never officially have.


> I think that Debian is officially supporting the blind, just not as fast as one would like or in the manner that Michael seems to think is necessary.  I would like to have a talking system from installation to first boot to shutdown but that's not completely possible anyway because of the BIOS limitations and because software speech can't start until later in the boot process.